[123.] Some interesting remarks on pheasant and partridge-hawking will be found in Freeman and Salvin’s “Falconry; its Claims, History, and Practice,” pp. 233, 235.
[124.] Vide Julius Pollux, “De ludis,” lib. ix.
[125.] “Musurgia Universalis,” 1650, p. 30.
[126.] In Sweden the bird is known as wipa to this day.
[127.] The fine was 8d. for every egg. See 3 & 4 Ed. VI. c. 7, and 25 Hen. VIII. c. 11.
[128.] “Falconry; its History, Claims, and Practice,” by G. E. Freeman and F. H. Salvin. London, 1859.
[129.] Leland states, that at the feast given on the inthronisation of George Neville, Archbishop of York, in the reign of Edward IV., no less than “400 Heronshawes” were served up!
[130.] Every Man Out of his Humour, Act iii. Sc. 3.
[131.] Thornbury, “Shakespeare’s England,” vol. i. pp. 169, 170.
[132.] Thornbury, “Shakespeare’s England,” i. p. 21; see also p. 33.